guestfriendship

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A form of guest-friendship — Friendship shown to guests; hospitality.

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Meanings

nounguestfriendship (usually uncountable, plural guestfriendships)

plural guestfriendships

  1. alternativeuncountableusuallyAlternative form of guest-friendship.

    We saw this in the renewed pledge of guestfriendship between Diomedes and Glaukos, the one's father having been a xeinos philos to the other's.

    2005, Margo Kitts, Sanctified Violence in Homeric Society
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    Penélopê formally extends her personal hospitality to the stranger, thereby creating that special relationship of guestfriendship which involves each party in making the other's interests his or her own.

    1993, Ralph J. Hexter, Robert Fitzgerald, A guide to the Odyssey

    Prince Tarquinius entered the house as a guest, but since he did not follow the rules of guestfriendship, his presence marks a violent entry even before he has violated the hostess.

    2011, Daniela Carpi, Bioethics and Biolaw through Literature - Page 354

    Peder Hansen Resen (1625-1688), [wrote that] besides being "barbarians," immigrants, and hostile to Christians, the Greenlanders were also "our true brothers in Adam" who enjoyed the kingdom's guestfriendship by inhabiting Danish territory.

    2021 November 23, Pamela Stern, The Inuit World, Routledge, →ISBN

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
hospitality
Cite this entry
APA

guestfriendship. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/guestfriendship

MLA

“guestfriendship.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/guestfriendship. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “guestfriendship,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/guestfriendship.

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